Transparent collapsible bottle or other container.



A. C. CRUMP.

TRANSPARENT COLIAPSIBLE BOTTLE OR OTHER CONTAINER.

v APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26. I91?- 7 ah I IN VEN TOR Patented July 16, 1918.

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Y I a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the cityofiNew York, borough of Manhattan, 'infthe county and State of New York, have {invented a new and Improved Transparent Collapsible Bottle or other Container,-of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to containers, and deals particularly with bottles or tubes characterized by the entire body of the container being 'The invention has for its general ob3ectspliable or collapsible.

to provide a collapsible container which is made of transparent liable material which will not injuriously a ect the contents, as is liable with containers made of metal.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a container whichis flexible both at the bottom and neck'as well as being flexible-throughout the length of the body,

so that dan er. of breakage and loss of the contents is o viated.

Still a further object of the invention is to provide a bottle which has an expansible mouth into which is fitted a non-yielding stopper, whereby an efiective seal is made possible.

which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be set forth with particularity in the following description and claim appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates certain embodiments of'the invention and wherein similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, Figure 1 is a 'erspectiveview of a bottle or container wit a re'e'ntrant bottom; Y Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof on the j line 2-2, Fig. 1;

Fig. .3 is a side view of the bottle collapsed;

Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line H,

Fig. 3

ig. 5'is a horizontal section on the line 5,5., Fig. 2;

Fig. 6 is a sectional view on the line 66, Fig. 4;

-With such; objects in view, and others specification of rs Patent Patented July 1c, 1918. v hp plication'filed lune 26,19171; Seria11to.-176,995.

Fig. 7 is a vertical section with the botthe container.

Referring to the drawing, A designates a bottle which has its bod [1, neck 2 and mouth ,3 made of a sing e piece of cellusection of the tube collapsed;

loid which is flexible, tough, transparent and p not readily affected chemically by materials ordinarily put up in bottles and tubes. The bottom 4: of the body is made conical or pointed and is set into the body 1 in reentrant relation thereto. Before the bottom l is inserted its marginal portion 5 is dipped in cement, which causes the bottom and body 1 to becomeintegrally connected. This bottom 4 is made of the same material as the body, and hence the bottom of the bottle can be collapsed, as shown in Figs. 3 and l. The mouth 3 is flexible so that the stopper 6 may be made of glass or other suitable material which is incompressible, and when the stopper is inserted, the mouth stretches and the tension or elasticity causes a tight' joint to be produced. The celluloid from which the bottle or bottom is made is preferably constructed of layers, as shown in Fib. 9, wherein the'outer or surface layers 1' are of hard celluloid and the inner layer l of soft celluloid. These layers are cemented together in the process of forming the tube from which the bottles are shaped.

The collapsible tube B can. be made by having the bottom 4 extending fromthe body 1, as shown inFigs. 7 and 8. The bottom 4' is united with the bod of the tube by being cemented thereto, as m the case of the bottle. The tube is collapsible, so that it is especially adapted for paste, which can be extruded by compressing thewalls of the tube. If'desired, the container can be filled from the bottom end before the bottom is cemented thereto, which is especially advantageous for viscous material which could not be filled into the container through the restricted mouth.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and, method of operation will be readily underv stood by those skilled in the art to which the, y, Having thus described my invention, I 10 invention appertains, and while I have declaim as new and desire to secure by Letscribed theprinciple of operation, together ters Patent: k With'the article which I now consider to be A container comprising a separately the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have formed collapsible resilient tubular body and it understood that the article shown is merely a separately formed collapsible resilient con- 15 illustrative and that such changes may be ical bottom telescopically engaged in the made when desired as fall within the scope body and permanently fastened thereto.

of the appended claim. a ARMISTEAD C. CRUMP. 

